The Brothers Le Nain

By Esther Bell, Dickerson C. D. III

"In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous....

Casanova

By Esther Bell, Frederick Ilchman, Thomas S. Michie, Dickerson C. D. III

In 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova s...

Sublime beauty

By Esther Bell, Mary Shay Millea, Linda Wolk Simon, Anna Coliva

"Sublime Beauty: Raphael's Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn focuses on one of the artist's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings and the mysterious blond sitter who epitomized his female portrait...

Degas impressionism and the Paris millinery trade

By Edgar Degas, Esther Bell, Simon Kelly, Susan Hiner

Though best known for his depictions of dancers and bathers, Edgar Degas repeatedly returned to the subject of millinery over the course of three decades. In masterpieces such as The Millinery Shop...

Degas, impressionism, and the Paris millinery trade

By Edgar Degas, Esther Bell, Simon Kelly, Susan Hiner

Though best known for his depictions of dancers and bathers, Edgar Degas repeatedly returned to the subject of millinery over the course of three decades. In masterpieces such as The Millinery Shop...

Guillaume Lethiere

By Esther Bell, Olivier Meslay, Alain Chevalier, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Natasha Coleman

Promenades on Paper

By Sarah Grandin, Esther Bell, Corinne Le Bitouze, Anne Leonard, Charlotte Guichard

Renoir

By Esther Bell, George T. M. Shackelford, Colin B. Bailey, Nicole Myers, Martha Lucy